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by bolt_007

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i have 2 computers setup at home on a ehternet and i want both to be able to connect to the internet. I have 1 phone line and have to share the line between both computers! so if i have computer 1 dial up i can get computer 2 to connect threw internet connection sharing now i also want to do it the other way round so that if computer 2 has used the phone line and dialed up to the internet then i want computer 1 to connect threw internet connection sharing threw computer 2 please help thanks

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by thechas

As far as I know, ICS is a one way street.

I see 2 options.

Set up a 3rd PC as a "server" between the 2 PCs, and have this PC be the only 1 with a modem.

Decide which of the 2 PCs you want to leave on all the time.
Enable wake-on-lan on this PC.
Remove the modem from the other PC.

Chas

by ώ.ữ.ẃ.ϫ.м.ς ® ,

Since you got your ethernet going you are 75% there.Get one system with a modem and a network card, the other with a netwk crd only. Configure using TCP/IP one being the MAIN (server).You dont actually need Ms ICS..there are a lot of better proxy freewares on the net.Try www.analogx.com download a 1.23mb file and use its really easy to configure, works like magic

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